Buy a Steampunk Version of The Addams Family's Thing for $1,400
There's no reason the world's most famous disembodied hand absolutely needs to be made from human flesh.
I don't think Charles Addams, the cartoonist who originally created the Addams Family in a series of one-panel strips for the New Yorker magazine, imagined the character quite like this. Well, we know Addams didn't really envision Thing T. Thing at all - when the Addams Family was translated to the small screen in 1964, the creators adapted an image of a disembodied hand changing the phonograph records and a sign outside the mansion which read "Beware of the Thing" into a recurring character with a surprising amount of characterization for having no dialogue. Well, an artist from the United Kingdom has gone one step further and provided a completely different perspective. What if Thing was an automaton of brass and wood powered by steam and gears?
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I have to say I love the production by "Doktor A. News" - as he calls himself on his website [http://www.spookypop.com/news/?p=850]. The gears on each knuckle are a nice touch, as are the little potion bottles on the weathered wooden stand. The whole sculpture is 7 inches tall, not including the base and it's made of a variety of materials. I'd windup the Clockwork Thing only if I knew he wouldn't mess with my sandwiches.
Oddly enough, the Clockwork Thing was recently on display at a gallery about 20 miles from where I now sit, in Carrboro, NC. The Addams Family Show. [http://wootinigallery.com/] The Clockwork Thing had a suggested price of $1,400, but there's no word if it sold or not.
Perhaps, if you're nice enough, you can ask the kind Doktor to make a new one for you. Or, you know, count your blessings that it's not loose in your area.
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There's no reason the world's most famous disembodied hand absolutely needs to be made from human flesh.
I don't think Charles Addams, the cartoonist who originally created the Addams Family in a series of one-panel strips for the New Yorker magazine, imagined the character quite like this. Well, we know Addams didn't really envision Thing T. Thing at all - when the Addams Family was translated to the small screen in 1964, the creators adapted an image of a disembodied hand changing the phonograph records and a sign outside the mansion which read "Beware of the Thing" into a recurring character with a surprising amount of characterization for having no dialogue. Well, an artist from the United Kingdom has gone one step further and provided a completely different perspective. What if Thing was an automaton of brass and wood powered by steam and gears?
[gallery=664]
I have to say I love the production by "Doktor A. News" - as he calls himself on his website [http://www.spookypop.com/news/?p=850]. The gears on each knuckle are a nice touch, as are the little potion bottles on the weathered wooden stand. The whole sculpture is 7 inches tall, not including the base and it's made of a variety of materials. I'd windup the Clockwork Thing only if I knew he wouldn't mess with my sandwiches.
Oddly enough, the Clockwork Thing was recently on display at a gallery about 20 miles from where I now sit, in Carrboro, NC. The Addams Family Show. [http://wootinigallery.com/] The Clockwork Thing had a suggested price of $1,400, but there's no word if it sold or not.
Perhaps, if you're nice enough, you can ask the kind Doktor to make a new one for you. Or, you know, count your blessings that it's not loose in your area.
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